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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sallust (c. 86–c. 34/35 B.C.)

Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (sal’ust). A Roman historian; born in 86 B.C.; died at Rome, about 34 B.C. His known remaining works are: ‘The Conspiracy of Catiline’ and ‘The History of the War against Jugurtha.’ A lost history of his covered only the period from 78 to 67 B.C. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).